Colorado College has installed an electric vehicle charging station. For 75 cents per hour, anyone can plug in and charge up in the parking lot at 830 N. Nevada Ave. on the college campus just north of downtown. CC alumni Jim Burness arranged for ChargePoint to donate the station. The college’s sustainability council allocated another [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs City Council will start work on regulations needed for the retail marijuana industry at a work session Monday, May 13. City Attorney Kyle Sauer will brief the city council on state legislation regarding retail marijuana licensing and regulation. Council will give the city staff direction for a public process to evaluate options to [...]
Continue reading …No Colorado Springs hospital earned an A in patient safety, according to the latest information from the Leapfrog Group, an independent, national nonprofit group of employer purchasers of health care. Penrose-St. Francis earned a B for both its campuses, and Memorial Hospital earned a C, according to the grades assigned – based on infections, injuries, [...]
Continue reading …A Colorado Springs company received an $18 million contract from the U.S. Army. Aleut Facilities Support Services signed a five-year contract to provide facilities operation support services to the U.S. Army Installation, Mission and Installation Contracting Command for Fort Belvoir, Va. If all contract options are exercised, the contract will be worth $94 million. The [...]
Continue reading …The Downtown Partnership will host the first of what it says will be many update meetings Thursday morning from 8:15 to 9:30 a.m. on Thursday May 16 at the Tim Gill Center at 315 E. Costilla St. The Partnership, which is funded by the Downtown Business Improvement District and the Downtown Development Authority, aims to [...]
Continue reading …CSBJ’s Best Of Business competition is back! Vote for the competition is now open. Readers can vote thier favorite businesses in 75 categories. Voting closes 5 p.m. May 31. Results will be announced during the Best Of Business reception, 4:30 -6:30 p.m. June 27 at the Ivywild School. Nearly all of the Best Of Business [...]
Continue reading …Neumann Systems Group is attempting to bounce back from a year of bad publicity and political wrangling about the company’s contract with Colorado Springs Utilities. The Springs company has submitted a proposal for an $18.75 million grant to the Department of Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory for a carbon capture technology that will [...]
Continue reading …A California real estate investment company has purchased the largest apartment complex in downtown Colorado Springs. The 200-unit Palmer Park Apartments at 1304 San Miguel St. was built in 1949. California investment company LocalConstruct bought the property for an undisclosed amount, according to a release from Apartment Realty Advisors, which brokered the deal for the [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Springs Business Journal is proud to announce the return of its Best Of Business competition in 2013. What is the best accounting firm in town? Which is the best bank? The best hospital? Restaurant? CSBJ readers are able to vote in 75 categories about what businesses they think should be crowned as the [...]
Continue reading …Local tourism officials say the Pikes Peak region is poised for a stellar season, and that wounds to the area’s image caused by last year’s Waldo Canyon fire are nearly healed. Convention and Visitors Bureau President and CEO Doug Price spoke about the state of the local tourism industry during the CVB’s annual business luncheon [...]
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